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STARBUCKS UNION DRIVE ROLLS ON

It has been less than a year that a Starbucks store in Buffalo, NY voted for a union. Since then, despite company hostility and union busting tactics, the drive for collective bargaining has spread nearly as fast as the Covid. As of late July, the number of Starbucks stores voting to be represented by Starbucks Workers United is approaching 200 and it appears to be only the beginning. Although still only a small fraction of the 9,000 facilities operated by the coffee giant, the union drive is gaining the momentum of a snowball rolling downhill. We think you’ll be hearing a lot more about it in the coming years.

Starbucks Workers United website

HADLEY, MASS. STORE BECOMES FIRST TRADER JOE’S TO UNIONIZE

Taking their cue from workers at Starbucks, Amazon, and Apple, workers at the Trader Joe’s store in Hadley, Mass. voted 45 to 31 to unionize, becoming the first in the chain to do so. Their union is called Trader Joe’s United. Another Trader Joe’s store in Minneapolis is scheduled for a union vote in September and workers at a store in Colorado have filed a petition for an election with the

NY Times, 7/28

 

UNION CHARGES CHIPOTLE CLOSED STORE IN RESPONSE TO ITS FILING FOR ELECTION

Shortly after workers at the Chipotle store in Augusta, Maine, filed for a union election, the store company closed the store down, an action, the union says, is retaliation for them seeking to organize. The move came just hours before the NLRB had scheduled a hearing on the union petition. It is against the labor laws for a company to retaliate in this way and the union has filed a charge against Chipotle. The company claims that its action was not in retaliation for employee union activity but simply a result of its inability to adequately staff the store, but the timing of the move casts strong doubt on its claim.

NY Times, 7/21

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UAW LOCAL LISTS WINS AT CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS

UAW local 2110 based in New York City is breaking new ground organizing workers at cultural institutions across the region. Like all workers, they are fighting for fair wages, benefits, work and life balance and respect at work. To date, workers at these institutions have voted overwhelmingly to join our union:
The New Museum of Contemporary Art
Asian American Writers Workshop
Tenement Museum
Brooklyn Academy of Music
Center for Reproductive Rights
Brooklyn Friends School
Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Shed
Children’s Museum of the Arts
Transportation Alternatives
Portland Museum of ArtMuseum of Fine Arts
Film At Lincoln Center
Manhattan Country School
Studio in a School
Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art
Whitney Museum of American Art
Hispanic Society of America
Anthology Film Archives
Brooklyn Museum

United Auto Workers Website

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BALTIMORE STORE: FIRST IN APPLE CHAIN TO ORGANIZE

Workers at an Apple store outside Baltimore have formed the tech giant’s first retail union in the U.S., marking another high-profile victory for the labor movement this year.

Employees at the company’s Towson Center store voted 65 to 33 in favor of joining the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, according to a vote count conducted Saturday by the National Labor Relations Board. Board officials have not certified the results yet to make them official.

The president of the machinists union, Robert Martinez Jr., immediately called upon Apple to start negotiating a contract, and praised the Apple workers for what he called a “historic victory.”
Huffpost, 6/28
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